Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be Named Health Secretary

Posted: Mon 7:46 AM, Mar 02, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama today is naming KansasGovernor Kathleen Sebelius to be his health secretary. If the Senate agrees, Sebelius will spearhead the president'sdrive for health care reform. And she'll take over a sprawlinghealth bureaucracy that runs everything from Medicare to cancerresearch to overseeing food safety. The 60-year-old Democrat has long experience with the ins andouts of medicine and its costs, both as Kansas governor and stateinsurance commissioner. At the White House, she'll have to share the health portfoliowith a reform czar. Obama plans to name a different person for thatjob. Tom Daschle, the former senator who was Obama's first choice forhealth secretary, would have held both jobs.

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